Thank you for bringing sanity to the world Captain Foresight!
I said that at the time, didnât even require hindsight.
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I was one of the few who didnât think it was that bad at the time but I was incredibly wrong.
Be interesting to see if we do anything about our keeping situation in the summer, also how much it will cost to aquire someone decent yo be our no 1.
Iâd love us to sign Mattia Perrin personally. Think heâs on the brink of becoming a world class stopper.
What do you think of Perin @Maxi_Gooner @Luca_from_Italy
Havenât seen much of him. He seems to be a great prospect though.
I like Allison. Wouldnât mind him here.
My simple math skills tell me that this is closer to 150m than to 100m 
I agree with the sentiments expressed towards the Szczsney sell. I also think Walcottâs fee is underwhelmingly low given that Everton signed Gilfi Sigurdson for 44m.
All in all Wenger is pretty terrible at managing players as assets. He never sells at the right time, he estranges players before he decides to let go, waits until their contracts situations worsen and generally goes into transfer negotiations holding a three and a seven vs a pair of high cards and tries to bluff his way through before capitulating eventually.
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I was being sarcastic.
It might not have looked like that in writing but a genius he is not 
I would go as far as to say, there isnât a worse manager in Europe in the transfer market, considering the amount of money he has at his disposal.
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Bit 200andlate their Jakey already posted it in the Mhki thread 
Wenger sees players as people before assets and want to see them fulfil their potential as footballers. He has the same mindset of a University professor
His humanist approach should be lauded in a sense but the reality is heâs allowed to exercise his left wing ideals at Arsenal because if the depth of his control.
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Thereâs a Mkhi* thread?! Didnt even know lol
I think you make too much of this notion of Wenger having left wing ideals lol. Itâs more likely that his idea of paying squad members similar amounts comes from a probably misguided notion of what constitutes good man management rather than being reflective of his deeply held socialist principles lol
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Well University professors are paid by tax-payers who send their children in for education, which is why it makes sense that a good professor will have his studentâs interests at heart.
Wenger on the other hand is paid by a fan base, there is a group of people whoâs best interests he should have at heart and that is not the players. The players have agents to look after their interests.
Wenger only cares about his players for as long as they act as good little boys and do as he pleases, just like any other person with power. There is nothing that helped developed Walcott or Szczsney in benching them and literally closing their doors for a career with Arsenal. All it achieved is drive their price down. It can be argued he has ruined more careers than he has helped make. I see nothing to laud him for.
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John Cross:
Wenger says: âitâll be an exchange of players and we remain on market.â
Says doesnât think Malcom will join this window.
Is more cagey on Aubameyang. âWeâd rather announce it when itâs done.â
So itâs looking like PEA and Micky at best
I can understand the doctrine of ensuring there isnât a large disparity between players wages, it based on sound logic even if I disagree. However I think youâd be right if the wages being paid over all these years were below or even at market rate.
We definitely consistently paid over market rate to players even during the lean years to for no reason other than indulging Wengerâs ideals which were based on flawed Socialist/Humanist values in sport. He used the term âSocialistâ in defence his wage structure, not me
I mean itâs not unsurprising for an individual who grew up in a village in post war France to have strongly held left wing views which would bled into his job as Manager. His high basic low bonus contracts scheme was and still is highly detrimental to the club in shifting players who werenât good enough when Incentive based contracts are the norm in sport
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Audacity of Arsenal fans frowning upon on this 
Weâre frowning on it because we have sold 140m worth of players, weâre sitting in sixth place behind all our rivals, playing the worst football we have played under Wenger, with only one elite player at the club who is likely to leave and we have just sold our best player to one of our main rivals.
I suppose youâre happy that as long as we donât spend more than we sell everything is just fine.
Which for a winter transfer period and our Europa League chances isnât bad at all. In the summer we must add some younger Guus.
Gosh, why do you have to be such a crybaby about everything?
I am not happy about anything. I was simply laughing at Arsenal fans being smug about Aubameyang & Mkhitaryan as if they are Benayoun & Arteta.